TH1RT3EN

TH1RT3EN has several levels of meaning, which Dave Mustaine, who first picked up an axe at the age of 13, reveals, saying, "I was born on September 13th; this is my thirteenth record. It just seemed like it was the right thing to do to call it TH1RT3EN. Mustaine is incredibly proud of the music put forth on the new recording, "This record is the culmination of my work over the 13 records I recorded. There are moments on TH1RT3EN that capture my every emotion, and other moments where I am releasing feelings I never knew existed! My proudest moments of my musical career are captured on TH1RT3EN.

Sudden Death

Sudden Death

Music & Lyrics by:
Mustaine

His wicked Highness, born from disaster, to dominate and to killA glistening, murder-machine; false majesty, standing perfectly stillA blitzkrieg; raining down evil on a mountain of black iceLike a good ole fashioned beating within Inches of your life

Alone and left abandoned with the sentence you've been handedAll your angels will ignore you as your life flashes before youEven still you keep on fighting through the thunder and the lightningAnd now Heaven sends its love your sudden death from above

Once frozen like a prisoner depraved, perched high atop the lithospheresSet free from beneath the depths of hell, bequeathing man nothing but despairThe beast is genetically programmed, time to destroy, time to go berserkTo see the end of all wars, to see the end of the earth

Stopping at nothing, punch-drunk from the blood that he's tastedTearing your soul apart, not one bit of your pain will be wastedNow death descends upon you like a bloody white doveBringing your retribution, your sudden death from above

[Chorus]

Public Enemy No. 1

Public Enemy No. 1

Music & Lyrics by:
Mustaine/Johnny K

Public enemy number oneJail break and a smoking gunYou won't believe the things I've doneAnd the killing is just for fun

Public enemy number oneA stolen car and I'm on the runThrough the night till the rising sunAnd the trouble has just begun

Roses on your graveI'll be on my wayThere's no time to stayWith the enemies I've made

I'm unbeatableMy mind is untreatableCrimes unrepeatablePublic enemy number one

Public enemy number oneWatch the authorities come undoneWith every stand-off that I've wonFlirting death just for fun

Public enemy number oneBorn a fugitive father's sonAnother heist of a bank is doneAnd the trouble has just begun

[Chorus]

The posters say I'm wanted "Dead or Dead"Anyone who's tried got a bullet to the head

[Chorus]

Public Enemy [repeat 4x]

Whose Life (Is it Anyways?)

Whose Life (Is it Anyways?)

Music & Lyrics by:
Mustaine

Ooh, you're just in time to get inside my headOoh, the war of words you're underneath my skin

You hate the way I wear my clothesYou hate my friends and where we goI see you in the shadows

You think you know what's best for meYou hate everything you see in meHave you looked in a mirror?

Hey! Just whose life is this anyway?You tell me how to live, but who asked you anywayHey! Just whose life is this anyway?Cost so much more than the price I ain't gonna pay

You only point out fault; anxiety attackYou running your mouth, you stab me in my back

[Chorus]

We The People

We The People

Music & Lyrics by:
Mustaine/Johnny K

Secret bureaucracy, it's just a lieThe devil's henchmen, in suit and tieA sacred brotherhood; an ancient ritePoliticians and the double lives they hide

Violate your rights, no more equalitySurrender freedom, your Social SecurityWe, the people face unconstitutional liesIn greed we trust, in revolution we die

Our founding fathers are rolling in their gravesThe land of liberty needs a regime changeUntil you no longer know right from wrongThe constitution isn't worth the paper it's written on

[Chorus]

Screams from the future, warn of calamityThe coming plagues of the new diseaseThe illuminati, one world currencyOne world religion, one World everything

[Chorus]

Guns, Drugs, & Money

Guns, Drugs, & Money

Music & Lyrics by:
Mustaine/Johnny K

Drinking cold cerveza in a boiling hot saloonChasing shots of tequila, just about high noonOutside Nuevo Laredo, deep in no man's landBecome a killer or be killed; face down in the Rio Grande

Poverty will turn the life of any good man badAll love and mercy ever learned, he'll soon forget what he had

Guns, drugs, and money under the Mexican skyGuns, drugs, and money; pick your poison or you dieGuns, drugs, and money; a pistol pressed to his headChoose silver and you're rich; you gonna die if you choose lead

He had a suitcase full of money, plenty of ammo for his gunThe sweat rolls down his dirty face, his plans have all come undoneIt's just a matter of time, no matter how he triesHe hears "Plata O Plomo, Gringo?" the last words before he dies

[Chorus]

Never Dead

Never Dead

Music & Lyrics by:
Mustaine

Killers lie in wait for innocent bloodTo swallow alive some harmless soulsWalking a crooked path, their wicked names will rot

Evil lives in the dark, its right is doing wrongThe torment never ends . . . it never ends

The fire that burns insideThat's blistering their brainsThat makes them sacrificeThat's driving them insane

Trapped in this "no man's land"Where angels dare to treadForever banned to the realmsOf the Never Dead

There's no one trust from this graveDie with those they swear to defendFeeding on the ones they'll feed off in the end

Evil lives in the dark, its right is doing wrongThe torment never ends . . . it never ends

[Chorus]

Death sits before you, to press on is suicideLife spills out of your body, you wither and dieFor the rest of your life in the realms of the Never Dead

[Chorus]

New World Order

New World Order

Music by:
Mustaine/Friedman/Ellefson

Lyrics by:
Mustaine/Menza

Where hath the apostles gone?Joining hands with wicked onesRevelation has come to passNew World Order will hold the mass

A book written by manUsed to control and commandAll rights will be deniedWithout the mark you shall die

No confession, all is knownNew World Order, you shall be shown

Monitoring all wagesNew World Order comes in stagesCurrency is obsoleteFeel the agony of defeat

A symbol of society todayA must have or you shall payAs humans, flesh leads the mindJust a pawn, the last martyr dies

[Chorus]

Where hath the apostles gone?Joining hands with wicked onesRevelation has come to passA New World Order, complete disorderWill hold the mass

Fast Lane

Fast Lane

Music & Lyrics by:
Mustaine/Johnny K

You don't know what I feel, I get behind the wheelA feeling in my soulI hyperventilate as I accelerateTill I've lost all control

My speed becomes relentlessContesting all my sensesWhite line appearing fasterPrompting death and disaster

My supersonic machineGet out of my...

Fast lane, like a jet planeLike a freight train, I'm driving insaneAddicted to the fast laneRushing to my brainNo time to explain, this is my domainAddicted to the fast lane

I look into mirror, red lights are drawing nearerThey think I've met my matchBut I shift into high gear, soon they just disappearYou can't jail what you can't catch

I hear the engines screamingI'm burning up the...

[Chorus]

Black Swan

Black Swan

Music & Lyrics by:
Mustaine

I thought a desire worth any pleasureCould never really be a sin in vainA hundred and one shots of opportunityI'd gladly take them all again, and again, and again

My angels left me with sorrows all my ownAnd now I'm here with the devil all my own

Just like a churchyard shadow creeping after meIts only there to terrify my mind, a black swan keeps haunting me

I promised on my soul not to get carried awayIt always starts out psychedelic and then it turns to blackMy head starts swaying; I forgot what was it I was saying?I don't know where I am and I'll never, never make it back

I sealed my fate, and I paid my debt; I fell from grace with deep regret

[Chorus]

There's nothing left to see, there's nothing left of me

Wrecker

Wrecker

Music & Lyrics by:
Mustaine

It doesn't matter what car you drive, she'll wreck itIt doesn't matter where you sleep at night, she'll wreck itIt doesn't matter where you go to workDoesn't matter where you go to churchDoesn't matter just how bad it hurts, she'll wreck it

My bleached bones in the desert, it's all she's left of me

Poison ivy in your touch, being with you destroyed so muchHome wreckerDeadly venom in your kiss, hell can't be worse than thisHome wrecker

It doesn't matter what you pretend, she'll wreck itIt doesn't matter what you defend, she'll wreck itIt doesn't matter how you live your lifeDoesn't matter anymore to your wifeDoesn't matter even how you die, she'll wreck that too

Like a vulture picking my bones clean, it's all that's left of me

Poison ivy in your touch, being with you destroyed so muchHome wreckerDeadly venom in your kiss, hell can't be worse than thisHome wrecker

It doesn't matter where you liveIt doesn't matter what you driveHome wrecker

[Chorus]

Millennium of the Blind

Millennium of the Blind

Music by:
Mustaine/Friedman/Johnny K

Lyrics by:
Mustaine/Johnny K

Line up all of you and turn in your eyesYou just won't need them anymoreAnd your mind is ours to do with what we pleaseEverything you own and everything you need

Sacrifice you leaders; like it or notOr else you're going down with the ship; death on the rocks

Blind follow; blind leadAll our hopes and dreams, washed out to sea

All your money's ours to bankroll corrupt warsYou can't see what you're fighting forTrust your leaders as they send you out to dieThe true face of evil can't be seen without eyes

At the start of time; many centuries agoCame the spawning of Christ and the AntichristAnd darkness fell upon our peopleAnd the children, they were born facelessWithout eyes they could not seeBorn unto themselves; they lived and they diedIn the Millennium of the Blind

[Youthanasia version]

At the start of timeMany centuries agoCame the spawning of ChristAnd the AntichristAnd darkness fell upon our peopleAnd the children, they were born facelessWithout eyes they could not seeBorn unto themselvesThey lived and they diedIn the millennium of the blind

Music - Mustaine/FriedmanLyrics - Mustaine

Deadly Nightshade

Deadly Nightshade

Music & Lyrics by:
Mustaine

Come now my lovely, won't youTake a midnight stroll with me?Through the misty air the thingsI keep I shouldn't dare

My garden's so inviting, and itsDeadly blooms are hidingBe careful what you touchLest the grave is what you lust

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